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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
GEORGE LUCAS

Consumption Darkness Destiny Forever Path Start Willing
I’ve discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don’t really know much about movies. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the technology. They don’t know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they’re lost.
GEORGE LUCAS

Criticism Discover History Lost Technology Try
My success wasn’t based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.
GEORGE LUCAS

Myself Success Uplift
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
GEORGE LUCAS

Best Country Happiness Help Patriot People
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.
GEORGE LUCAS

Hero Natural Place Time Wrong
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
GEORGE LUCAS

Easy Hard Learning Movie
All democracies turn into dictatorships – but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.
GEORGE LUCAS

Democracy Government Ideas Politics Population
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
GEORGE LUCAS

Boredom Effect Story Tools
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
GEORGE LUCAS

Discover Talent Yourself
It’s not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It’s how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there’s always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
GEORGE LUCAS

Circumstance Movie Pressure Struggle Yourself
I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers – teachers with very loud voices.
GEORGE LUCAS

Aware Loud Movie Myself Teacher Try Voice
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
GEORGE LUCAS

Fantasy Fiction Funny Place
The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
GEORGE LUCAS

Give Up Hard Hope Myself Secret Worth
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.
GEORGE LUCAS

Compassion Issues Life Lying Objective Passionate Psychology Responsibility
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
GEORGE LUCAS

Education Human Important Ourselves Powerful Society Teacher Touch
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
GEORGE LUCAS

Art Culture Destroy People Power Profit Work

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